ffmpeg in devel: to bump or not to bump

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 14.09.2008 16:59, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 September 2008 at 16:06, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
 > [...]
> Admittedly the situation with ffmpeg
> has improved over the last year or so, so as long as the applications
> using ffmpeg have updated their interfaces in the last few months,
> there should be less and less breakage in the future.

Yeah, I have noticed that and I'm really glad about it. But I feel kind 
of burned from the past here, that's why I'm still a bit careful when it 
comes to ffmpeg updates.

> I'll take a look at libdlna if I can spare some time later.

thx

>>> ffmpeg SVN r15262 introduced a bump to major libavcodec version, so
>>> all dependent packages will need a rebuild. The last time this has
>>> happened was in r4726, over 2 and a half years ago. There are some
>>> API changes going on right now so I'm not going to do it just yet.
>> Just to be sure: You said "need a rebuild" and "API changes" in above 
>> para. Thus the apps that use ffmpeg not only need adjustments for the 
>> new ffmpeg but also code changes?
> Possibly. Now that they've broken ABI, all kinds of changes can be
> expected. On second thought maybe I'll wait until F10 is released
> with this. I'll update FFmpeg to the last snapshot with the old ABI
> in all branches to have a good base, but I'll wait for Fedora rawhide
> fork (and the following RPMFusion devel fork) to do the ABI bump.
> Does that sound okay?

Sounds like a good plan to me.

CU
knurd